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Action Painting [openFrameworks]

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Action Painting, also refereed to as Masculine Expressionism is the latest project by Jeremy Rotsztain that using data from action movies as material generates a series of “action paintings” in the style of Jackson Pollock.

In Action Painting, gestures are extracted from action film sequences (car chase movies, fight scenes, explosions, etc.) and used as material to compose digital paintings. Pun intended. For example when Jason Bourne drives backwards through the streets of Paris in a nail-biting police chase, when the underdog Rocky Balboa battles Apollo Creed, when a helicopter chases a high speed train through a tunnel in Mission Impossible, the app takes these sequences and playfully converts them into abstract expressionist images.

Action Painting was created using openFrameworks. For each frame of video, the software samples the changed pixels, saving them to the computer’s memory. It then rearranges all the sampled pixels on screen to compose a series of abstract expressionist images, which are presented as large format prints and video installations.

For more information see mantissa.ca/projects/actionpainting + this flickr album.

(via @mat3i)

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Posted on: 21/11/2009

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  • http://julapy.com/blog/ lukasz

    nice use of the correlation between movie explosions and the ridiculous sound levels… its so hard to watch action movies quietly!

    question: anyone know if the image is vectorised when being painted and if so how?

  • http://lepolsk.blog4ever.vom LepolsK-painter

    cool

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